Race Riding or Herding?

[Kitan]

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

Pretty definite for something you can't be even close to sure about.

Here's a question for you.....if it didn't affect the outcome of the race, then why did Mike Smith even put himself in a possible position to come down?

Clearly, Mike Smith 100% disagrees with you. But, hey, what does he know.

Let me rephrase that better based on my first post: there's not enough evidence to definitively say that the runner-up would have won if both horses kept a straight line, hence no DQ and outcome unchanged. I've seen no inquiries for worse, I guess in those instances it was fine because they weren't at risk of coming down? If you can provide clear evidence that the runner-up was cost a placing by the winner's actions, please, be my guest and show it to me. Maybe some momentum or inertia calculations. I'm not condoning his actions (I said he should get a suspension) but I don't think the runner-up was impeded enough to definitively lose a placing. Mike Smith also thinks the jockey of the runner-up would have been at fault, I guess we should take his word for that because of what he knows?